Service Grids in 2004: No Standards

David Longworth wrote an excellent piece, Grid Lock-in On Route To SOA, declaring that “vendor strategies to promote grid computing as the IT backbone for service oriented architectures are missing a vital element: standards.” Among his findings:

Concludes Longworth: “Research group IDC has estimated that the market for grid computing will grow to $12 billion across both technical markets and commercial enterprise… But until standards like WSRF and DCML gain substance and momentum, the reality today is that the majority of commercial grid initiatives will be tied to individual vendors’ proprietary grid environments, without the ability to share or manage resources across separate grid architectures.”